Editor of The Economist joins panel on Japan's prospects
Bill Emmott, editor in chief of The Economist, will participate in a panel discussion titled "Whither Japan? Past Hopes and Present Prospects for Japan's Great Power Status" on Wednesday, Sept. 12.
Sponsored by International Security Studies, the discussion will take place at 4 p.m. in Rm. 203 of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The event is free and open to the public.
Emmott began his career with The Economist in the weekly magazine's Brussels office, writing about EEC affairs and the Benelux countries. In 1982 he became the paper's economics correspondent in London, and the following year he moved to Tokyo to cover Japan and South Korea. In 1986 he returned to London as financial editor and in 1989 became business affairs editor, taking responsibility for all coverage of business, finance and science. He was appointed to his current post in 1993.
In 1989 Emmott published "The Sun Also Sets," in which he bolsters his view that too much was being made in America of a supposed Japanese threat. Since then he has written two other books on Japan: "Japanophobia," which in 1992 compared Japanese multinationals' activities abroad with those of American multinationals in the 1960s and 1970s; and "Kanryo no Taizai" ("The Bureaucrats' Deadly Sins"), an essay about Japan's woes published in 1996 in Japanese.
Emmott will be joined on the panel by Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and director of International Security Studies; Paul Bracken, professor at the School of Management; Charles Hill, visiting lecturer at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies; and Michael Auslin, assistant professor of history.
Anthony Grafton, one of the nation's foremost experts on humanism and the history of education and reading during the Renaissance, will deliver a lecture titled "Commonplace Books and the Practices of Learning in Early Modern Europe" on Wednesday, Sept. 12, at 5 p.m. at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Grafton's lecture is presented in conjunction with the Beinecke Library exhibition "Commonplace Books: Manuscripts and Printed Books from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century," which is on display through Sept. 29.
For centuries, philosophers, scholars, lawyers, doctors, theologians, artists, poets, and others have gathered memorable thoughts and words and organized them in what are known as "commonplace books." These compilations have preserved over time a wide array of information, including famous quotations, anecdotes, maxims, jokes, verses, medicinal and culinary recipes, devotional texts, mathematical tables and other subject matter.
Grafton, the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, has authored dozens of articles and reviews on the history of reading and scholarship in the Renaissance. His major publications include "From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe" (with Lisa Jardine), "Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers" and "The Footnote: A Curious History."
The Beinecke Library is located at the corner of Wall and High streets. A reception will follow the lecture. The event is free and open to the public.
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